Is there a way to change registry to trick a program to recognize Windows XP Home as Pro?

vtqanh

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Here's my problem: I have XP Home on my laptop and I can't get Rational Rose 2003 to install since it needs XP Pro. The installation stops after the verification of OS. I believe it should work fine for XP Home since Rational Rose 2002 did. RR 2002 issued a warning (about the OS being XP Home) but continued the installation and worked fine in XP Home.
Is there anyway to trick RR 2003 installation to recognize XP Home as Pro?
Or is there anyway to get RR 2003 installed on XP Home?
Thanks
 

vtqanh

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Originally posted by: bsmithy
does it work with 2000/98?

if so it might help runnig it in compatability mode

I tried to run it in 2000 mode, didn't work though. The program seems to call a Windows service to check for OS version.
 

CZroe

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I remember reading in a leaked Windows 2003 Server review that the reviewers used some common "trick" to "change" it back to XP Pro so they could benchmark it both ways. All the benchmarks showed was that an actual XP Pro machine differed while the pseudo-Pro/2003 machine had identical performance despite the change.

They had 2003 server beta booting with the XP Pro splash screen, it said XP Pro on the Start menu and System properties, etc.

I wish the "trick" they used were a little more common.